Story and characters
Tell the translator about the series, its people and how it should read.
The translator reads each page with the two before it. It does not know who Saito is, that the senior doctors are
blunt, or that you want to keep -san and -sensei. A project's settings tell it, for every page, at no extra
cost.
Open a project and click the gear next to its title.
Story
- Series, genre, time and place: one line each is enough.
- Background: what a reader of this volume already knows. No spoilers needed.
- Tone: how the dialogue should sound.
- Honorifics: keep them (
-san,-sensei), translate them (Mr., Doctor), leave them out, or let the translator decide. - Notes for the translator: anything else.
Characters
For each person: the name as written in the Japanese, its reading, the name in your translation, what others call them, their pronouns, who they are and how they speak. Names are always translated as written here, and pronouns keep he and she right where the Japanese leaves them out.
Glossary and general
Glossary picks the glossary the project uses. General has the project's name, language and quality.
What the translator gets
The card on the right counts what is sent with every page: story, characters, glossary and notes, up to 4,000 characters for story, characters and notes. Short and specific works best. Changes are saved when you click Done and are used for pages translated from then on; pages already translated keep their text until you redo them or re-translate a line.